Wil Anderson has been one of the ABC’s best-known faces.Source: Supplied

Wil Anderson appears to light up some marijuana in the video. Picture: YouTubeSource: YouTube

THE ABC appears to have shrugged its shoulders over an internet video in which its high-profile star Wil Anderson appears to smoke marijuana.

A spokesman from the ABC said there was “no comment” yesterday relating to the video of Anderson apparently using pipes and a bong to smoke marijuana, during an interview on the online US show Getting Doug With High.

But a well-placed ABC insider said despite some raised eyebrows about Anderson’s internet video, which was doing the rounds of the web yesterday, “it won’t affect his ongoing appearances on the ABC”.

The source said Anderson is in the US for a large segment of the year and when he does record hit ABC shows including The Gruen Transfer it is via the production company CJZ (a merger of Cordell Jigsaw Productions and Zapruder’s Other Films).

The comedian has in the past talked about his marijuana use, but the video is an in-your-face showing of his apparent fondness for the drug.

Anderson said he had first used marijuana for medicinal reasons, to combat the pain of his chronic osteoarthritis.

In the recorded interview with American host Doug Benson and another comedian Gary Gulman, Anderson appears nervous at first, but then takes marijuana from a pipe handed over by Benson.

The American host tells Anderson he often takes a similar pipe between US airports, but tells the Aussie star “I don’t know about internationally though”.

Given the popularity of The Gruen franchise on the ABC, Anderson is now a household name in Australia. The format for the hit show has this year been sold to the US.